different between incubate vs heat

English

Etymology

From Latin incubatus, past participle ofincubare (“to hatch”), from Latinin- (“on”) and cubare (“to lie”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???kj?be?t/

Verb

incubate (third-person singular simple present incubates, present participle incubating, simple past and past participle incubated)

1. (transitive) To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
   • 1975, Catherine Marshall, Adventures in Prayer, New York, Ballantine Books, December 1976, page 46 - Part of our problem in praying for our children, he suggested, is the time lage, the necessary slow maturation of our prayers. But that's the way of God's rhythm in nature. For instance, the hen must patiently sit on her eggs to incubate them before the baby chicks hatch.
   • 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, New York, Vintage International, May 1992, page 3 - The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off.
   • 2004, A. J. Jacobs, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World New York, Simon & Schuster, 2004, page 50 - The female cichlid fish are called "mouth breeders," which means they incubate eggs in their mouth.
2. (transitive) To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.
   • 1992, Sheila Davis, The Songwriters Idea Book: 40 Strategies to Excite Your Imagination, Help You Design Distinctive Songs, and Keep Your Creative Flow, Cincinnati, Writer's Digest Books, 1992, page 96. - When you've got your theme–let the concept incubate. Walk around with it, sleep on it.

Derived terms

• incubation
• incubative
• incubator

Translations

Anagrams

• cubanite

Italian

Verb

incubate

1. second-person plural present indicative of incubare
2. second-person plural imperative of incubare
3. feminine plural of incubato

Anagrams

• ubicante

Latin

Verb

incub?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of incub?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?t, IPA^(key): /hi?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /hit/, [çit]
• Rhymes: -i?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English hete, from Old English h?te, h?tu (“heat, warmth; fervor, ardor”), from Proto-Germanic *hait?? (“heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kayd-, a derived form of *kay- (“heat; hot”).

Cognate with Scots hete (“heat”), North Frisian hiet (“heat”), Old High German heiz? (“heat”). Related also to Dutch hitte (“heat”), German Hitze (“heat”), Swedish hetta (“heat”), Icelandic hiti (“heat”).

Noun

heat (countable and uncountable, plural heats)

1. (uncountable) Thermal energy.
   • 2007, James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition, pages 106–108:

     Heat and temperature, although different, are intimately related. [...] For example, suppose you added equal amounts of heat to equal masses of iron and aluminum. How do you think their temperatures would change? […] if the temperature of the iron increased by 100 C°, the corresponding temperature change in the aluminum would be only 48 C°.

2. (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.

3. (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.

4. (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.

   Synonyms: passion, vehemence

5. (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.

6. (uncountable, slang) The police.
7. (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
8. (countable, baseball) A fastball.

9. (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.

10. (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race

11. (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.

12. (countable) A hot spell.

13. (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.

14. (uncountable) The output of a heating system.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English heten, from Old English h?tan (“to heat; become hot”), from Proto-Germanic *haitijan? (“to heat, make hot”).

Verb

heat (third-person singular simple present heats, present participle heating, simple past and past participle heated or (dialectal) het)

1. (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").

   I'll heat up the water.

2. (intransitive) To become hotter.

   There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
5. (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).

   The massage heated her up.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• stoke
• warm up
• heat up; hot up, hot

Translations

Anagrams

• Thea, eath, haet, hate, heta

Swedish

Etymology

From English heat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hi?t/
• Homophone: hit

Noun

heat n

1. (sports) A heat, a preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race

Declension

Anagrams

• Thea, heta